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Charles and I are in America now! I am here to attend the Bob Becker Ragtime Xylophone workshop and Charles is here to attend the Jazz Vibes course. Anyway!
We stayed at the Formule 1 in Sydney the day before the flight on the 28th. The flight was 14 hours to LA, and then another 5 hours to New York. We left at 10am on the Thursday and arrived at 5:30pm on the Thursday! It was hard convincing ourselves that only 8 hours had passed instead of 22.
We took a taxi to our hotel in New York - the 30 30 hotel in midtown, Manhattan. After a brief rest we took a walk and then had a late dinner at a restaurant outside our hotel.
Sleep was not had that night! Jetlag attack!
On Friday the 29th, we got up at about 10:30 (accidentally slept in) and went for a walk down to a shop I wanted to visit called Tokyo Rebel. They import Japanese fashions and it's really nice. The walk was very hot and humid, it was cloudy but one thousand degrees. We went to a park on the way and saw squirrels! I'd never seen squirrels before!
At the shop I tried on a beautiful Victorian Maiden dress that I really wanted, but I wasn't prepared to spend that much money. Instead I bought a little tote bag by Baby, The Stars Shine Bright. It's really cute.
Me and my bag (looking pretty tired):
After that we went to a really nice cafe and had lunch. What we ate:
BBQ'd asparagus with cheese and pepper and lemon - very nice!
Giant burger and giant amount of lovely chips!
After lunch we meandered back to our hotel where we had a little rest. I was feeling really bad with jetlag. Charles was tired but seemed to be feeling okay.
At 6 we took several trains out to Brooklyn to meet Charles' cousin Melissa. Subway trains are air-conditioned, but the stations are NOT. They are very hot and stuffy. It's disgusting. At Brooklyn Melissa showed us the beautiful view of the river and Manhattan. Then it started raining. We popped back to her house to get something and then went out to walk to a restaurant. It was raining SO HARD that their front steps had turned into a lake. I just took my shoes off and waded through because there was no way round. We went to a restaurant called Rice whose specialty was rice. I had dumplings though. It was lovely to talk to an Australian.
Around 9 Charles and I went back to our hotel totally exhausted. Despite our tiredness we still couldn't sleep! Worst ever!
We stayed at the Formule 1 in Sydney the day before the flight on the 28th. The flight was 14 hours to LA, and then another 5 hours to New York. We left at 10am on the Thursday and arrived at 5:30pm on the Thursday! It was hard convincing ourselves that only 8 hours had passed instead of 22.
We took a taxi to our hotel in New York - the 30 30 hotel in midtown, Manhattan. After a brief rest we took a walk and then had a late dinner at a restaurant outside our hotel.
Sleep was not had that night! Jetlag attack!
On Friday the 29th, we got up at about 10:30 (accidentally slept in) and went for a walk down to a shop I wanted to visit called Tokyo Rebel. They import Japanese fashions and it's really nice. The walk was very hot and humid, it was cloudy but one thousand degrees. We went to a park on the way and saw squirrels! I'd never seen squirrels before!
At the shop I tried on a beautiful Victorian Maiden dress that I really wanted, but I wasn't prepared to spend that much money. Instead I bought a little tote bag by Baby, The Stars Shine Bright. It's really cute.
Me and my bag (looking pretty tired):
After that we went to a really nice cafe and had lunch. What we ate:
BBQ'd asparagus with cheese and pepper and lemon - very nice!
Giant burger and giant amount of lovely chips!
After lunch we meandered back to our hotel where we had a little rest. I was feeling really bad with jetlag. Charles was tired but seemed to be feeling okay.
At 6 we took several trains out to Brooklyn to meet Charles' cousin Melissa. Subway trains are air-conditioned, but the stations are NOT. They are very hot and stuffy. It's disgusting. At Brooklyn Melissa showed us the beautiful view of the river and Manhattan. Then it started raining. We popped back to her house to get something and then went out to walk to a restaurant. It was raining SO HARD that their front steps had turned into a lake. I just took my shoes off and waded through because there was no way round. We went to a restaurant called Rice whose specialty was rice. I had dumplings though. It was lovely to talk to an Australian.
Around 9 Charles and I went back to our hotel totally exhausted. Despite our tiredness we still couldn't sleep! Worst ever!
